Add further the lines by Emerson quoted b)' the President in opening 
the meeting, 
''Along the city's paved street. 
Plant gardens lined with flowers sweet"; 
and one has, in brief, the principal idea with which the Society of Little 
Gardens was founded and the lines on which it is working. 
The original plan of its founders was the creation of a very small city 
garden club, but so many were the applications for membership, that 
before it was six months old the Society boasted over two hundred mem- 
bers and had branches in more than a dozen States, since increased to 
twenty. 
It now oilers to all those whose gardens are on a most limited scale, 
such advantages of co-operation and inspiration as are already given by 
the G.\RDEN Club to those who are eligible to their membership. 
It aims to promote wayside, especially street, planting, the cultivation 
of small and otherw^ise barren spots, the guardianship of old gardens and 
the protection of fine trees and vines. 
Had there been an active association of this kind in existence when 
Bartram's Garden was first offered for sale, it is safe to assume that that 
once lovely spot might yet have been an earthly paradise. 
The local work of the Society has met with much interest and sym- 
pathy. Sale of flowers and plants have been held in the poorer parts of 
the city, teachers and lecturers have been sent to small communities to 
give instruction in the planting of gardens and growing of vegetables, a 
window box movement has been successfully inaugurated and valuable 
work has been done in street tree-planting and in the Memorial Tree 
movement. Assistance has also been given in local movements towards 
bird protection, bee-keeping and the study of aquaria. 
The past sad years have emphasized the need of all the comfort and 
support that beauty can give and taught us the value of trees and growing 
things. 
If all those who realize this need could be linked together with some 
chain — 'no matter how sHght — -what might not be accomplished I 
The Society of Little Gardens offers itself as this link and invites 
all garden lovers, as well as all small societies to join its ranks and work 
together for the wayside beautiful, making the towns, the villages, the 
school yards, the waste places, the country church yards, and the ugly 
back-yards, the restful and lovely places they should be, worthy of this 
great country and its people. 
Information is gladly given by the Secretary to anyone who cares to 
learn further particulars concerning the aims of the Society. 
Bertha A. Clark. 
Secretary of the Society of Little Gardens and Associate Member of 
the Garden Cll^ of America. 
(Mrs. Charles Davis Cl.\rk, 2215 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.) 
45 
